Walt, I can use that after the last 9 years of Transactional Trump Hell! It is like they torture you in prison by playing loud music 24/7 and having bright lights on, and tie your hands so you cannot cover your ears, and force your eyelids open, and you just cannot stop it no matter what. That is the feeling I get from Transactional Trump. What about you?
A Canadian posted on one of my boards during Trump 1.0 that living next door to America lately was "like having a neighbor whose car alarm goes off at 3AM, for hours, every night" and an American responded "how do you think it feels being locked in the trunk?"
How fucking stupid can one be? Would've loved to been the fly on the wall when those poor grandkids folks found out about road kill Bobby's trip to the local DC creek filled with pathogens. That's beyond child abuse. On a very funny note, that pic of Vance applying the Cheetos to dear leader's face was good for the laugh of the morning.
I suggest crawling around where the walls meet the floors of a ER of a hospital to lick the floors there right there. I used to have to measure the floors in them because my store provided the new flooring for them. Do you want to know what I saw there. First, the lights don’t go there, and the dust is alive. Dust 3” deep, I was shocked. That’s where the Uber germs are that medicines can’t stop. Those rooms are so stacked with er equipment body sees them but us lucky ones, excuse me I have this cough and nobody can figure it out I guess we’ll talk tomorrow.
Everything proves his point. Only a robust hunter gatherer Nature Guy such as himself can eat roadkill and survive. OTOH, people who eat Kraft macaroni and cheese would curl up and die immediately.
Kegstand also boasted while at Fox that he never washed his hands and actually ate something that had been dropped on the. floor. Germ-proof! These are uber-mensch.
Absolutely cool use of German uber-mensch. Please continue to use this great word because it fits the current crop of lunatics so well. But the plural of Übermensch is Übermenschen. They are Übermenschen. (I spent five months in Germany learning German.)
Sharon- you’ve never eaten anything that fell on a clean floor? Then you are probably one of the very few who haven’t.
I don’t want to invoke the 2 second rule but it’s really not likely to make you sick. And if you scrupulously avoid all germs your entire life then your immune system will be underdeveloped and unable to counter any serious germs that may come your way later.
Yes, I should have considered that it wasn’t a ritz cracker with spread that landed right side up but a grotesque scarfing of some goop that should have gone straight into the trash. I forgot who we were talking about for a moment, Oil slick Pete.
Maybe they can't read the signs? Either uneducated or worm-brain-warped also.
Or, they were there for the photo op of a 'happy family' enjoying the water without recognizing other people would know where they were. These people are just conceited dimwits.
Jeff, why is MSM not asking “Real World “Duffy what happened to the $14.5 Billion that was passed in the Infrastructure bill to update airports when he lies that the Biden administration did nothing to upgrade airports?
Check out his house. Believe Google earth still has it. Then check on acreage. Then tell me how he can claim farm tax exemptions? He's just Scott Walker's doppelganger.
I take two generics. One used to cost me $20 for a 3 month supply, the other didn’t cost anything. After Biden’s negotiation, both were free. Even after tampering with Biden’s deal both still are. What a failure! 🙄
My prescriptions (a statin, a BP med, and an acid reflux) were $5 co-pay last year, now $15. My monthly drug plan (AARP/United Healthcare) was $40 two years ago. It is now $115 and change. My teacher retirement increases 2% a year. The math is not complicated.
Yep, when I was on a PPO plan the costs were never stable, rising every year, usually more than the cost of living. I went to a HMO, not because I like it, but it keeps the costs down (my monthly premium actually went down. When the hell does that ever happen?) I can’t recommend it for everyone as YMMV depending on where you live, but right now it works.
American healthcare was surrendered to the oligarchs when it became a “for profit” enterprise. In just the last 10 years I’ve experienced a significant decline in the availability and the quality of care I have received. Oh yeah, it cost shit ton$ more, too.
Before I turned 65, I had insurance through the ACA exchange in WA. The best deal I could find was about $750 a month with a $6200 deductible. For that I was allowed to have one physical every TWO years and a "free" flu shot every year. Whaddabunchabullshit!!!
Let me get this straight. Your monthly drug plan is a combination of AARP and United Healthcare? Not one, but two fraudulent organizations? You'd be better off in California with Bronze coverage.
AARP offers a health plan through UHC. Sometimes it’s the only reasonable option, as in, if you retire out of the state you worked in, there’s only one plan offered. I do agree with your evaluation of AARP though. As Dr. Glaucomflecken says, their company policy is “We Are Evil!”
Unfortunately for me, I have the same combo as my Medicare secondary. When open enrollment rolled around, (as it does every year) I examined my options and this was still the best one for me.
I have never ‘joined’ AARP, and never will, mostly because they’re a racket and partly because they think my name is Maria. Which it is not.
I am not destitute. . . yet. In 2018, when I retired and hopped on Medicare (traditional) and added Supplemental F and prescription plan, I was paying $28 a month for drug plan. My prescriptions are still the same.
Michael, I’m guessing you are on “Tier 3” drugs. Many have been around since the 50’s, like blood pressure meds and such. Those costs have remained fairly stable. However , once you move into the Tier 2 and Tier 1 drugs, they nail you. The way Big Pharma has manipulated our government to do their bidding at the expense of most everyone in our country is a sad commentary.
Anyone thinking maybe HE'S taking the "fat shot" on the sly?
Booby Brainworm is going to have people following his example, I'm sure. What's worse than sewer clowns (and that particular clown WAS swimming in the sewr)? It's what we have.
Totally agree!!! He was projecting and creating this fat super successful businessman that he respected (rich rich rich… by his money-metric, a super achiever) with his deep insecurities about his appearance… probably got a lot of shit from is family about his weight etc…. So fat! Needed the fat shot! Fat shot not working!
The fact the imaginary friend called him “president” is also a giveaway
I'm repeating myself here, but does anyone remember Paul Begala, who famously said, "Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool." The thing is, much of the assembled multitude actually believes that about an executive order. What is wrong with people? Guess it's Begala's fault,
Clinton advisor. 1998. I'm dating myself but I remember the quote like it was yesterday. I googled him from the quote. Yeah I know, too much time on my hands.
I wondered the same thing. If an EO is meant for only the executive branch why are they followed as law? Are there really that many followers of trump and his band of misfits or that
I watched the video of the Convicted Felon's rambling "fat shot" speech and was struck by how much more orange he is. Like, highlighter orange. The man is clearly in dire need of mental health services.
People with the mindset or brain chemistry of those who support Drumpf will never be free to change as it would be too much of a shock to their system to admit they were wrong. It would take cult level therapy to do it. And, after Drumpf, they'll most likely find another evil persona or cause to support. Happens with those who hate the lives they have and look for someone to save them, or at least to verbalize the hate they feel for anyone they think put them where they are. It's always against the "others" - anyone outside their little enclaves - anyone who is happy, or the immigrants, or the POC, or the women libbers that turn their souls.
Everything that Biden accomplished that is reversed by Trump is an opening for him to take bribes from whomever will participate, the newest target being Big Pharma execs. The money will go directly into his pocket. This so-called presidency will be nothing more than the biggest grift in all of history. Meanwhile, MAGAs dropping like flies because they can't afford healthcare, medication, rent, groceries and so on.... tragic.
Jeff, watching the GOP eat itself over the budget appropriations bill that they are trying to pass, which is showing that hardline Republicans versus old school. Republicans probably means that budget appropriation’s bill is never going to pass, on top of the fact that the drug executive order, is all bluster because all of that spending has to be worked out by Congress, which will very likely be worked out in the budget appropriations Bill, which is destined to fucking fail.
If it does come down to a contest, look for him to denigrate James Buchanan, Millard Fillmore and Herbert Hoover. And that "low-energy" Calvin Coolidge.
And, he is just getting started. I am numb already and could hardly work up a righteous indignation with the damn plane from Qatar, because these are the known things. I am sure for every penny we get to see, there are many, many more we don't get to see The Transactional Trump getting.
It's funny, I must have read damn near every book that was published after the first Trump administration. And they all say pretty much the same thing: Never has one man been so unprepared, unqualified and downright callous. Not to mention made a mockery of what is arguably the most important job on this poor, doomed planet. And after all that THEY VOTED FOR HIM AGAIN. No, as Doctor Seuss observed, you can't teach a Sneetch.
A friend's partner would say there are people who learn and in 20 years they learn 20 years worth of things, and there are people who for 20 years just keep repeating what they were doing the first year. Here however, we see regression. They voted for him again, or for the first time because they lack imagination, and have poor memories. They forgot what it was like to live under constant chaos, something I never wanted to experience again.
When people used to say to me that Dubya was the worst President ever, I would reply that Buchanan's record was hard to break: at least W finished with all the States he started with. But Trump made me reconsider: however poorly Buchanan handled the secession crisis, at least he didn't invite Confederates to sack the Capitol.
Given that Ozempic is drug made in Denmark, diaper stain Donnie will be lucky if they don’t raise the price. Frankly, I wouldn’t blame them if they did. I feel more sorry for Americans but close to 80 million people voted for this sewer clown so who cares
I watched that godawful display of incoherence from Trump. I usually ignore them, but wanted to see what he said about prescription drugs. Let’s not forget that a big part of his motivation had to do with European countries being mean to him by stealing all the low prices. Leading to the toddler foot-stomping demand that our country just get the lowest prices. How the fuck is that supposed to work? Always the grievance factor. Everything else was all promises. I’m sure the base loved it, since it will require no thinking to nod their heads in blind adulation.
His brilliant move to "equalize" (a word he just invented) drug pricing is to demand that drugs prices be raised in European countries. Or, he threatened, they won't be allowed to sell their cars in the U.S. He really believes those all-powerful tariffs have made him the Master of the Universe.
So true Jeff. I live in the wealthiest area of Silicon Valley. Not even a ripple of financial “ouch” in this enclave. Everyone gets exhilarated when home prices keep rising to uber-astronomical prices… but the people who do the work at homes and businesses commute from 1-2 hours away. Oh boy!! Our home prices are stratospheric!! And we rely on non-native born non-whites to do the work. Entirely. Drug, food or entertainment prices are not a topic, ever, anywhere.
You nailed it Jeff! Cheetos is now offering a make-up brand! Unfortunately it also affects the brain…which seems to fit in this case!
We need that injection of smarts real soon!
That vaccine for Willful Ignorance can't come soon enough....
And throw in one for cognitive dissonance, as well.
Walt, I can use that after the last 9 years of Transactional Trump Hell! It is like they torture you in prison by playing loud music 24/7 and having bright lights on, and tie your hands so you cannot cover your ears, and force your eyelids open, and you just cannot stop it no matter what. That is the feeling I get from Transactional Trump. What about you?
A journalist once wrote the Trump first term was like waking up to a jackhammer pounding the pavement outside your bedroom window every morning.
A Canadian posted on one of my boards during Trump 1.0 that living next door to America lately was "like having a neighbor whose car alarm goes off at 3AM, for hours, every night" and an American responded "how do you think it feels being locked in the trunk?"
Is it Cinnabar powder without the mercury removed? That would explain a lot!
He must have been using it his whole life.
Is that akin to the Twinkies Defense?
He probably shouldn’t be mixing it with his adderall then snorting though Tess!!
I don’t care if Bacteria Bobby swims in shark infested waters, but taking your grandkids to a polio pond?
How fucking stupid can one be? Would've loved to been the fly on the wall when those poor grandkids folks found out about road kill Bobby's trip to the local DC creek filled with pathogens. That's beyond child abuse. On a very funny note, that pic of Vance applying the Cheetos to dear leader's face was good for the laugh of the morning.
Hopefully Bobby picked up a new brain worm that'll finish the job the first one started.
WHY would Brainworms kids let him take their kids anywhere?! We better not hear ANYTHING about these kids getting cholera!! HOLY SHITE!
We'll never hear a thing, because they would be jetted off to some country to get their treatments.
I suggest crawling around where the walls meet the floors of a ER of a hospital to lick the floors there right there. I used to have to measure the floors in them because my store provided the new flooring for them. Do you want to know what I saw there. First, the lights don’t go there, and the dust is alive. Dust 3” deep, I was shocked. That’s where the Uber germs are that medicines can’t stop. Those rooms are so stacked with er equipment body sees them but us lucky ones, excuse me I have this cough and nobody can figure it out I guess we’ll talk tomorrow.
I work in a large medical center. Can confirm this.
You won’t. They would keep that hushed up for sure.
Uber germs no known cure they defy it.
Bobby believes that if you eat the right foods, germs will bounce off of you. He believes that he just proved his point.
The man eats road kill for crying out loud!
Everything proves his point. Only a robust hunter gatherer Nature Guy such as himself can eat roadkill and survive. OTOH, people who eat Kraft macaroni and cheese would curl up and die immediately.
Pretzel Logic personified
Kegstand also boasted while at Fox that he never washed his hands and actually ate something that had been dropped on the. floor. Germ-proof! These are uber-mensch.
Absolutely cool use of German uber-mensch. Please continue to use this great word because it fits the current crop of lunatics so well. But the plural of Übermensch is Übermenschen. They are Übermenschen. (I spent five months in Germany learning German.)
It also fits for Drumpf's German heritage.
His wives musta called him Mr UTI
🤣🤣🤣
Sharon- you’ve never eaten anything that fell on a clean floor? Then you are probably one of the very few who haven’t.
I don’t want to invoke the 2 second rule but it’s really not likely to make you sick. And if you scrupulously avoid all germs your entire life then your immune system will be underdeveloped and unable to counter any serious germs that may come your way later.
Ole, he scooped some glob of food off the floor of the FOX NEWS STUDIO and was videotaped doing it. Impressed the blondes, I'm sure.
Yes, I should have considered that it wasn’t a ritz cracker with spread that landed right side up but a grotesque scarfing of some goop that should have gone straight into the trash. I forgot who we were talking about for a moment, Oil slick Pete.
Yes--And that's why he is the secretary of HHS. He's a medical expert....a brilliant scientist.
And an uneducated one at that! The best of the best - fits so well in the Drumpf biosphere.
Yup. And what is he going to do when they get some gawdawful case of MRSA or worse? Rub dead-whale blubber on it? I’m sure has a boatload of it.
E Coli would be the first likely illness result of their stupidity. Lots of bloody diarrhea. And, sometimes deadly.
C. Diff has entered the chat.
One hopes the grandkids' parents had sense enough to vaccinate their kids.
Vaccines won’t help if you have a break in your skin and MRSA or some other nasty bacteria gets in.
Why TF didn't their parents intervene? They were there with them.
Maybe they can't read the signs? Either uneducated or worm-brain-warped also.
Or, they were there for the photo op of a 'happy family' enjoying the water without recognizing other people would know where they were. These people are just conceited dimwits.
Jeff, why is MSM not asking “Real World “Duffy what happened to the $14.5 Billion that was passed in the Infrastructure bill to update airports when he lies that the Biden administration did nothing to upgrade airports?
I will probably write about Duffy tomorrow, because he's spewed a lot of stupid shit over the last 48 hours
Just the last 48 hours?
Check out his house. Believe Google earth still has it. Then check on acreage. Then tell me how he can claim farm tax exemptions? He's just Scott Walker's doppelganger.
My guess is they don't want to confuse him with facts
That's because Murc's Law is Cruise Control for Cool (and Clicks!)
Where did that money go I wonder🤫
I take two generics. One used to cost me $20 for a 3 month supply, the other didn’t cost anything. After Biden’s negotiation, both were free. Even after tampering with Biden’s deal both still are. What a failure! 🙄
My prescriptions (a statin, a BP med, and an acid reflux) were $5 co-pay last year, now $15. My monthly drug plan (AARP/United Healthcare) was $40 two years ago. It is now $115 and change. My teacher retirement increases 2% a year. The math is not complicated.
You obviously know and are referring to real math. MAGA math tells the cultists that paying more is somehow good for them, thank you Mr. President!
China will pay the difference.
👏🏻😂👏🏻😂👏🏻😂
Yep, when I was on a PPO plan the costs were never stable, rising every year, usually more than the cost of living. I went to a HMO, not because I like it, but it keeps the costs down (my monthly premium actually went down. When the hell does that ever happen?) I can’t recommend it for everyone as YMMV depending on where you live, but right now it works.
American healthcare was surrendered to the oligarchs when it became a “for profit” enterprise. In just the last 10 years I’ve experienced a significant decline in the availability and the quality of care I have received. Oh yeah, it cost shit ton$ more, too.
Before I turned 65, I had insurance through the ACA exchange in WA. The best deal I could find was about $750 a month with a $6200 deductible. For that I was allowed to have one physical every TWO years and a "free" flu shot every year. Whaddabunchabullshit!!!
Yep, I had something similar. Mine was a bit cheaper because I qualified for subsidies.
Get a different drug plan. I use Welcare.
Let me get this straight. Your monthly drug plan is a combination of AARP and United Healthcare? Not one, but two fraudulent organizations? You'd be better off in California with Bronze coverage.
United Healthcare is a racket ….
AARP offers a health plan through UHC. Sometimes it’s the only reasonable option, as in, if you retire out of the state you worked in, there’s only one plan offered. I do agree with your evaluation of AARP though. As Dr. Glaucomflecken says, their company policy is “We Are Evil!”
Unfortunately for me, I have the same combo as my Medicare secondary. When open enrollment rolled around, (as it does every year) I examined my options and this was still the best one for me.
I have never ‘joined’ AARP, and never will, mostly because they’re a racket and partly because they think my name is Maria. Which it is not.
I am not destitute. . . yet. In 2018, when I retired and hopped on Medicare (traditional) and added Supplemental F and prescription plan, I was paying $28 a month for drug plan. My prescriptions are still the same.
Michael, I’m guessing you are on “Tier 3” drugs. Many have been around since the 50’s, like blood pressure meds and such. Those costs have remained fairly stable. However , once you move into the Tier 2 and Tier 1 drugs, they nail you. The way Big Pharma has manipulated our government to do their bidding at the expense of most everyone in our country is a sad commentary.
Anyone thinking maybe HE'S taking the "fat shot" on the sly?
Booby Brainworm is going to have people following his example, I'm sure. What's worse than sewer clowns (and that particular clown WAS swimming in the sewr)? It's what we have.
Donny was talking about himself with the fat drug. He talks to himself....
That's how he comes up with these wonderful ideas.
Totally agree!!! He was projecting and creating this fat super successful businessman that he respected (rich rich rich… by his money-metric, a super achiever) with his deep insecurities about his appearance… probably got a lot of shit from is family about his weight etc…. So fat! Needed the fat shot! Fat shot not working!
The fact the imaginary friend called him “president” is also a giveaway
Variation on "Sir."
Dumbass just needs to ditch the McDonald’s, and he’d drop some weight. Saudi Arabia had an entire McD trailer set up for Donny’s delight.
For real?
Yes. I saw it on the news this morning.
Yup. It's him. He's brilliant and rich...and still fat.
He may lose weight, but there's no shot for ugly and stupid.
Nor evil!
And "highly neurotic." Why would he throw that in unless he thinks that's a good thing.
Of course he is
Before Trump's presidencies, I never wished that anyone would just die. I don't appreciate feeling this way.
I know. I don’t want to be the person I’ve become, who every morning asks, “Is he dead yet?” 🥺
Why are people acting like EOs are law then?
Especially when a vast majority of of them don’t just address the executive branch at all.
Exactly! NOT ENFORCEABLE- no matter what Donny Two-Dolls says!
I'm repeating myself here, but does anyone remember Paul Begala, who famously said, "Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool." The thing is, much of the assembled multitude actually believes that about an executive order. What is wrong with people? Guess it's Begala's fault,
I vaguely remember the name but not who he was, and don't remember that quote.
Clinton advisor. 1998. I'm dating myself but I remember the quote like it was yesterday. I googled him from the quote. Yeah I know, too much time on my hands.
I wondered the same thing. If an EO is meant for only the executive branch why are they followed as law? Are there really that many followers of trump and his band of misfits or that
many stupid people?
I watched the video of the Convicted Felon's rambling "fat shot" speech and was struck by how much more orange he is. Like, highlighter orange. The man is clearly in dire need of mental health services.
He must insist on doing his own face paint. There are splotches that remind me of my mom at 92 trying to do her own makeup.
As the Beatles sang:
“ Here comes the Splotch King…”
More like Mean Mr. Mustard-patch.
Wondering WHAT IN THE HELL it will take for even five percent of his followers to begin to question is mental acuity. Will that ever happen???!!!!?
KP, I asked myself the same question…back in 2016!
I think about this all the time. The short answer is NEVER. As Nathanael West wrote, "Nothing is sadder than the truly monstrous."
People with the mindset or brain chemistry of those who support Drumpf will never be free to change as it would be too much of a shock to their system to admit they were wrong. It would take cult level therapy to do it. And, after Drumpf, they'll most likely find another evil persona or cause to support. Happens with those who hate the lives they have and look for someone to save them, or at least to verbalize the hate they feel for anyone they think put them where they are. It's always against the "others" - anyone outside their little enclaves - anyone who is happy, or the immigrants, or the POC, or the women libbers that turn their souls.
The Jim Jones effect. Those folks realized the truth when it was too late. The maggots are still drinking the Cool Aid.
In Medieval literature that kind of face was always the sign of the devil. Glad to see we're far more evolved these days.
Or some gay friends. Gay friends would never let him go out in public like that.
Everything that Biden accomplished that is reversed by Trump is an opening for him to take bribes from whomever will participate, the newest target being Big Pharma execs. The money will go directly into his pocket. This so-called presidency will be nothing more than the biggest grift in all of history. Meanwhile, MAGAs dropping like flies because they can't afford healthcare, medication, rent, groceries and so on.... tragic.
Not dropping fast enough!!!
Jeff, watching the GOP eat itself over the budget appropriations bill that they are trying to pass, which is showing that hardline Republicans versus old school. Republicans probably means that budget appropriation’s bill is never going to pass, on top of the fact that the drug executive order, is all bluster because all of that spending has to be worked out by Congress, which will very likely be worked out in the budget appropriations Bill, which is destined to fucking fail.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-bigly-yuge-gop-budget-bill-that
And here is another happy piece under Transactional Trump, the leaders of religious groups are mad at him. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/12/2321933/-Trump-is-doing-a-terrific-job-pissing-off-religious-groups?detail=emaildkre
So, Donald will come in first place as the worst US president in all history. That should make him super happy.
47 is worse than 45 who was deemed the worst president in history.
It’s just worst for all of us
It's a perfect storm arisen from collective apathy and gullibility in the face of unfettered crime.
If it does come down to a contest, look for him to denigrate James Buchanan, Millard Fillmore and Herbert Hoover. And that "low-energy" Calvin Coolidge.
And, he is just getting started. I am numb already and could hardly work up a righteous indignation with the damn plane from Qatar, because these are the known things. I am sure for every penny we get to see, there are many, many more we don't get to see The Transactional Trump getting.
It's funny, I must have read damn near every book that was published after the first Trump administration. And they all say pretty much the same thing: Never has one man been so unprepared, unqualified and downright callous. Not to mention made a mockery of what is arguably the most important job on this poor, doomed planet. And after all that THEY VOTED FOR HIM AGAIN. No, as Doctor Seuss observed, you can't teach a Sneetch.
A friend's partner would say there are people who learn and in 20 years they learn 20 years worth of things, and there are people who for 20 years just keep repeating what they were doing the first year. Here however, we see regression. They voted for him again, or for the first time because they lack imagination, and have poor memories. They forgot what it was like to live under constant chaos, something I never wanted to experience again.
When people used to say to me that Dubya was the worst President ever, I would reply that Buchanan's record was hard to break: at least W finished with all the States he started with. But Trump made me reconsider: however poorly Buchanan handled the secession crisis, at least he didn't invite Confederates to sack the Capitol.
You ain't just whistling Dixie . . . or the Horst Wessel Song.
Thanks for the link. That is a good article.
A fat neurotic rich guy who calls Trump “President” and we would probably recognize him - it’s John Baron!
Good one!
Given that Ozempic is drug made in Denmark, diaper stain Donnie will be lucky if they don’t raise the price. Frankly, I wouldn’t blame them if they did. I feel more sorry for Americans but close to 80 million people voted for this sewer clown so who cares
FUCK!!! Cheetos were one of my favorite snack foods aka munchies. You know what would be funny if they used flaming hot Cheeto dust on him...😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂
Dump's nostrils and eyes would be burning like one of Smuk's dumpster cars.
Fingers crossed! 😁
I watched that godawful display of incoherence from Trump. I usually ignore them, but wanted to see what he said about prescription drugs. Let’s not forget that a big part of his motivation had to do with European countries being mean to him by stealing all the low prices. Leading to the toddler foot-stomping demand that our country just get the lowest prices. How the fuck is that supposed to work? Always the grievance factor. Everything else was all promises. I’m sure the base loved it, since it will require no thinking to nod their heads in blind adulation.
His brilliant move to "equalize" (a word he just invented) drug pricing is to demand that drugs prices be raised in European countries. Or, he threatened, they won't be allowed to sell their cars in the U.S. He really believes those all-powerful tariffs have made him the Master of the Universe.
He’s doing it so the wealthy chunks don’t have to travel to Europe to get it cheaper. There’s no way he would do this for the average citizen
trust me, the wealthy don't give a shit about how much prescription drugs cost. they don't even notice
So true Jeff. I live in the wealthiest area of Silicon Valley. Not even a ripple of financial “ouch” in this enclave. Everyone gets exhilarated when home prices keep rising to uber-astronomical prices… but the people who do the work at homes and businesses commute from 1-2 hours away. Oh boy!! Our home prices are stratospheric!! And we rely on non-native born non-whites to do the work. Entirely. Drug, food or entertainment prices are not a topic, ever, anywhere.
They all get a piece.
More like, he wants Big Pharma to stop selling to Europe until the EU lets them price gouge there as extremely as they do in the US.